You can almost smell the coffee. Well, in this case, the tea. When Mc Donalds isn’t making people fat or clogging their arteries with their greasy food, they seem to have a knack for scalding people with their boiling beverages. This time it’s Mirian Richardson, a Mount Vernon resident, whose scared lap might never be the same thanks to the carelessness of workers at Penn Restaurant, Inc. of Armonk, NY, the operator’s of the Mc Donalds franchise where Richardson was hurt. She is suing the company for an undisclosed amount. The publicity in this case is unlikely to compare with the firestorm over a well-known incident from 15 years ago where a 79- year-old Albuquergue woman sued the company because her coffee was too hot. This case is almost always tossed out by insurance companies and big business as the poster child for tort reform and to smear trial lawyers. But anyone who understands the truth about this case knows that the woman suffered 3rd degree burns over 6 percent of her body. She was hospitalized for 8 days and she underwent skin grafting The Mc Donald’s coffee she was served was not simply hot, it was a scalding 190 degrees, which is 50-to-60 degrees hotter than normal coffee made at home and in most restaurants. it turned out that Mc Donald’s purposely kept the coffee scalding hot despite having received more than 700 complaints and claims of serious burns from customers over a 10-year period. Mc Donalds’ finally admitted they make too much money selling the coffee scalding hot and would rather pay the claims of the people they burn than lower the temperature of the coffee. It’s a simple numbers game.
The New York Times reported today that a trial date has been set for the remaining wrongful death lawsuits stemming from the 9/11 terror attacks. April 12, 2010 is the date set by a Manhattan judge.
This building had been under orders to close since April 2008 and had 60 outstanding violations
The New York Daily News ran a story today about a very protective “Rotty” — as in big dog that looks demonic — who leisurely rides the day away in a specially-designed carriage on one of Coney Island’s best-known attractions, the 120-foot tall ferris wheel called Denos Wonder Wheel. At night, however, Sunshine, that’s the dog’s name, goes medieval as he stealthily guards the grounds around the ferris wheel to keep vandals at bay.
As landlords in New York City run into trouble paying their mortgages, go broke, skip town and forget to leave a forwarding address, tenants left behind in buildings abandoned by their owners are facing growing problems as broken doors, falling ceilings, cracked staircases and defective elevators go unrepaired and create unsafe living conditions for building residents.
I don’t know if this only happens in New York, but it’s no wonder The Big Apple boasts having a personal injury law firm virtually on every corner. The New York Times reported today that early last year Manhattan prosecutors concluded that the area’s largest concrete testing company, Testwell Laboratories, had been systematically falsifying its results on many public and private construction projects, including the testing of the concrete used to build the pending Second Avenue Subway, the No. 7 Line and the South Ferry Terminal Station.
A Staten Island woman fell into an uncovered sewer manhole this past weekend. She wasn’t watching where she was going, her mind and eyes completely preoccupied by the text messages she was sending from her cell phone while crossing the street. The Department of Environmental Protection claims that the open manhole was left unattended for just a moment while workers went to pick up some tools from their truck. Now the parents of the injured girl, Alexa Longueira, 15, are filing a lawsuit. But the grounds for the suit are unclear. The high school sophomore was looked at by doctors at Staten Island University Hospital and released. The teen’s mother argues that the fact her daughter was walking and texting is irrelevant. “The ‘gross’ factor still can’t be ignored,” her mother said. As a New York resident with a car, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve avoided collisions with other drivers, or serious mishaps with feckless pedestrians who can’t seem to live life for one moment without a cell phone attached to their eyes and ears. I would be interested in what a New York personal injury lawyer has to say with regard to this matter.